Martin Amis dead at 73: Renowned British author of bleakly comic novels including Money and London Fields loses battle with oesophageal cancer
Renowned British author Martin Amis has died aged 73 after a cancer battle.
He died on Friday at his home in Lake Worth, Flordia, his wife, the writer Isabel Fonseca, said the cause was esophageal cancer.
Mr. Amis published 15 novels throughout his career, gaining prominence in the 1980s and 90s.
His is well known for his so-called London trilogy of novels — ‘Money: A Suicide Note’ (1985), ‘London Fields’ (1990) and ‘The Information’ (1995).
His final novel, ‘Inside Story,’ published in 2020, was a ‘novelized autobiography’ that in part looked at his friendship with Christopher Hitchens – who died of the same cancer in 2011.
Mr. Amis’s was the son of well-known 1950s novelists Kingsley Amis, who died in 1995.
Mr. Amis said having a famous writer for a father was a blessing and curse but acknowledged he’d have been in a ‘very different position’ if his father had been a schoolteacher.
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Renowned British author Martin Amis has died aged 73 after cancer battle
Martin Louis Amis was born on August 25, 1949, in Oxford and had an older brother, Philip, and a younger sister, Sally, who died in 2000.
He studied at Exeter College,Oxford, where in 1971 he graduated with honors in English.
Mr. Amis wrote his first novel, ‘The Rachel Papers,’ in 1973, on nights and weekends, noting if it had failed he may have considered academia.
